Christensen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2025
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kiamichi Area Vocational-Technical School District No. 7 v. Short · United States v. Villano · United States v. Marquez · Billis v. State · Sorenson v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] “written judgment and sentence order may be used to ‘clarify an ambiguous oral sentence by providing evidence of what was said from the bench.’ ” United States v. Earley, 816 F.2d 1428, 1431 (10th Cir.1987) (quoting [United States v.] Villano, 816 F.2d [1448] at 1451 [ (10th Cir.1987) ]).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State“He acknowledges that the district court may correct a judgment and sentence by an order nunc pro tunc to reflect the court's oral pronouncement at sentencing. According to Appellant, however, the order nunc pro tunc entered in this case was”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heinemann v. State“where it is necessary to make the judgment speak the truth, and cannot be used to change the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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